Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold out his hand for the return quarter, but he takes it, and the cabbie is disgusted. Away in a cloud of gear-teeth he goes. The old gentleman turns in a show half-circle to the big, grey building, a smile on his face. The unpleasantness is over for today. A shame about that quarter, he mutters, but necessary. He has a better use for it than as a tip. He slips...
Today is Today. Today is Today, Today. Today is. By "Sadi Sadi" (Mr. Levy), a burlesque of sadistic art, showing a woman with her arm cut off and a set of malevolent teeth fixed in the stump...
Collaborators. Co-author Infeld is a distinguished theoretical physicist in his own right. A tall, jovial man with irregular teeth and the lumpy physique of a sedentary scholar, he speaks English with a heavy accent, but fluently and well. Born 40 years ago in Cracow, Poland, he studied at Cracow's ancient university and in Berlin, lectured in Lwów, spent some years in England's Cambridge as a Rockefeller fellow, joined the Institute at Princeton in 1936. In Cambridge he helped Physicist Max Born, another German exile (now at Edinburgh), in the formulation of a field...
Everyone, deep down inside, wishes he could swashbuckle. It's probably something left over from childhood, when we thumbed Howard Pyle's "Book of Pirates," and imagined ourselves standing on the poop-deck, armed to the teeth. The next best thing, of course, is watching somebody else do it. This is what makes Cecil DeMille's "The Buccaneer," now at the University, such a thoroughly delightful picture. We have heard that the film is a travesty on history, but it is doubtful if Mr. DeMille could better have satisfied the great American public than with this magnificent piece of nationalism...
...Montana's Burton Wheeler, anything that looks like a grab for Presidential power is profoundly disturbing. Wheeler scheme for drawing the teeth of the Reorganization Plan was an amendment whereby Presidential changes, under Title 1, needed Congressional approval to be effective-thereby throwing the balance of power to Congress since a simple majority would be sufficient to thwart any executive proposal. Scurrying to round up votes against the amendment. Floor Leader Barkley found so few that it seemed advisable to have Louisiana's Ellender launch a miniature filibuster to prevent a roll call. Meanwhile, Floor Leader Barkley...